From Safely Gathered In – Food Storage Friday: Pinwheel Cookies

This is the perfect recipe for all that leftover pie crust… and now I’m realizing that I’m about a week late posting it, since it would have been great to have this recipe when you all were making your Thanksgiving pies!  So, just make pie crust especially for this one (like I did), or make it next time you make a pie (Christmas?).  It’s definitely worth making a crust specially for this, though… I really liked these flaky cookies and will probably be making them again soon.

My mom actually did something similar to this when I was growing up, but she just baked the pie crust on the bottom of a pie pan, and sprinkled the sugar and cinnamon on top, and cut the pieces into wedges.  Perhaps you have your own version of this recipe?

From Survival Blog – Surviving in Caves, by Caver X. 

I got hooked on spelunking in the early 1990s in Tennessee. It was an adventure that would last for about 5 years and take me in several different caves including one that I went in between 35 to 40 times. There are basics to know when planning a cave trip…

Just in case you haven’t seen enough hardcore survivalist stuff around here recently.

From The New Old School – fresh sageâ??hair rinse

The Damsel is blessed with a ridiculously strong and healthy sage plant bush shrub-thing. And the amount of sage she uses in cooking during an entire year uses a sadly small percentage of its offspring. The Damsel loathes wasting things, so she went in search of other uses for fresh sage. Ages ago, the Damsel’s [...]

An interesting idea.

From The New Old School – making herb vinegars

Ah! This is the Damsel’s kind of project. Easy, quick, big payoff. Making herbal vinegar is as easy as kindergarten. It’s up to you which kind of herbs to use. What herbs do you love? Start there. The Damsel loves sage, and has a boatload of it, so there you have it. Take fresh, washed [...]

From Get Rich Slowly – Your Health is Your Most Important Asset

When Kris and I traveled to England and Ireland with her parents in 2007, I came home with a financial epiphany. Actually, the trip highlighted a concept that I’d only vaguely understood before: I was a slave to the tyranny of Stuff. I had accumulated way too many things in my life, and this was [...]

From Get Rich Slowly – Waste Less Food, Save More Money

Coming home after more than three weeks in Europe, our refrigerator was practically bare. Kris and I love food, and our fridge is usually filled to the gills with tons of good stuff, so seeing the vast emptiness was almost shocking. But in a good way. One of the drawbacks to keeping a full fridge [...]

From The Simple Dollar – Jealousy â?? And What You Can’t See

One of the nicest houses in our town recently went into foreclosure. The family that lived there seemed to have “everything” on the surface – a gorgeous house, nice cars, nice clothing, expensive cell phones, and so on. In truth, though, they were in debt up to their eyeballs. Now that house that they had [...]

Just a reminder on the importance of avoiding debt.

From The Simple Dollar – Making a Change Feel Normal

A long time ago, I wrote about the idea of a money free weekend – two days spent doing stuff that’s free or extremely close to it. At that time, the idea of a money-free weekend was a bit of a challenge for my family – we almost always spent money doing something each weekend. [...]

From Safely Gathered In – Food Storage Friday: Pumpkin Granola

I came across this granola recipe and had to try it out. Quite delicious and perfect for fall!

Something else to do with your food storage.

From Get Rich Slowly – Why Are There No Ads Urging Us to Save?

This is a guest post from Rob Bennett, a long-time GRS reader. Bennett created the first retirement calculator that contains an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins. The Cat in the Hat and the Grinch. Who’s the miser? Who’s the spendthrift? Nearly everyone is going to say that the Cat in the Hat is the spendthrift and that the Grinch is the miser. The Grinch is selfish and small-minded and unhappy; the Cat in the Hat is generous and carefree and full of fun. This is why you find it hard to save. Logic vs. Emotion Logic rarely determines human behavior. Logic operates at a surface level; strong emotion trumps strong logic every time. People filter arguments and data to fit their emotional take on a subject; as Paul Simon observed in song: “A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” Most of us appreciate the logical case for [...]

Okay, I guess there are the ING Direct ads, but that’s about it.